netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: qcom/emac: fix a sizeof() typo

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:28:50 +0100
From:   walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:     Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
CC:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: qcom/emac: fix a sizeof() typo



Am 13.02.2017 14:03, schrieb Timur Tabi:
> walter harms wrote:
>> We have a function where the argument is ignored and the rest is const ?
>>
>> emac_ethtool_get_regs_len seems the only user. So it would be fairly
>> easy to
>> move that into that function.
>>
>> @maintainer:
>> Is there a deeper logic behind this ?
> 
> I don't understand the question.


The question is: why is a simple calculation const*const
separated into a function ?

re,
 wh